Flutist and
recording artist Wendy Musk was
taught and inspired by several of the finest flutists of the twentieth
century.As a student she studied with
the formidable Harold Bennett, First Flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and at sixteen was enrolled at Boston University
under the tutelage of James Pappoutsakis of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.During the summers of undergraduate school, Wendy received the Beineke Fellowship to play at the Tanglewood Festival where she studied
with Doriot Dwyer and was a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under
the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas and the New Music Festival under the direction of Gunther Schuller. She is
also a recipient of the esteemed Koussevitsky Prize.Gradating Boston University with a double degree in performance and education,
Wendy joined the Masters program at the Juilliard School
as a student of Arthur Lora and subsequently Julius Baker.During her Juilliard years, Wendy co-founded
the American Woodwind Quintet, which
won the Artists International Award
twice, debuted at Carnegie Recital Hall
and joined the staff of teaching/performing artists at Lincoln Center Institute.An
avid advocate for arts-in-education programs, Wendy became the spokesperson and
coordinator for the Arts Consortium for
Education, representing fifty-six professional arts organizations.

Wendy also went on
to record five albums as half of the critically acclaimed duo Present Dreams, the other beingcomposer Richard
A. Musk.Present Dreams stands alone at the crossroads of many musical
genres making music that uplifts, soothes, excites and inspires.Present Dreams’ five albums have garnered
international praise and are no available for purchase on iTunes.Wendy
teaches at the Fraser Woods School and resides in Newtown.